Posts tagged with Aaron Priest

Viking celebrations continued in fine style in Unst on Saturday with the third Up-Helly-A' of the weekend.
Aaron Priest donned his winged helmet and grabbed his double axe to depict Viking Grimur Kamban – a Norse settler in the Faroe Islands in the ninth century, who apparently stopped off in N... Read more...

Potential wind power schemes in Shetland received a boost on Friday with the announcement of a new consultation on less established renewable technologies.
Remote island projects will be able to apply for a "Contract for Difference" (CfD) in the next competitive auction (subject to state aid appr... Read more...

Support for big windfarms such as the Viking Energy project have been given an election backing by the Conservatives.
The Tory party has backed "wind projects in the remote islands of Scotland" in its election manifesto.
Page 22 of the manifesto, released yesterday, promises "a diverse energy mix"... Read more...

A number of energy companies headed by SSE have written to the Secretary of State for Energy to put a case for island windfarm projects being allowed to participate in the Westminster government’s next renewable energy auction.
At stake is the future of Viking windfarm, which needs to be given ... Read more...

A landslip near the site of a proposed road serving the Viking windfarm north of Sandwater has prompted concern from the project’s opponent.
Those behind the project were not worried by the landslip but one critic, Ian Tinkler, walked the top of Mid Kame ridge and examined the source of the... Read more...

A government decision to bring forward a change to the way wind farms are subsidised a year earlier than planned will have no impact on wind farm developments in Shetland, renewable energy developers have said.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd announced yesterday that the Department... Read more...